Features

##Repository Management Features

• Proxied repositories (Repositories)
  • HTTP proxy support per-repository
  • Advanced SSL support per-repository
    • X.509 SSL mutual authentication
    • Self-signed server certificates
• Deployment points (hosted repositories) (Deploy Points)
  • Separate en/disable flags for snapshots and releases, allowing them to be stored together, or separately (or, not at all)
• Groups - Prioritized, logical grouping containing Repositories, Deploy Points, and other Groups
  • Deployment to any group that contains an appropriate Deploy Point in its membership
  • Merging of archetype catalog, maven-metadata, etc.
  • Aggregation of Maven repository indexes (used by m2eclipse and other tools)
• Artifact expiration (Repositories and Deploy Points)
  • Pass-through support for Repositories (minimal 5-minute caching to support continuously changing content on the remote site)
  • Timed expiration of content in Repositories, with timeout configured per-repository
  • Expirations in Deploy Points are for snapshots ONLY

##Add-Ons

(NOTE: See Add-Ons for more information.)

• Auto-proxying

  • Automatically create proxies to other repository manager instances using a remote base-URL and template configuration
  • Proxies created on-demand the first time they are referenced
    • HEAD request to URL derived from repository name and auto-proxy configuration template
  • Auto-creation also supports group and deploy-point creation

• Dependency graphing support

  • Uses Cartographer for graph discovery and manipulation
  • Uses Galley as an artifact transport API
  • Uses Atlas for artifact identities and as a project-relationship database
  • Resolve entire (or subset) project-relationship graph starting from one or more top-level GAVs
  • Filter and retrieve depgraphs in a variety of formats:
    • modified dependency:tree format
    • JSON listing of relationship metadata
    • BOM file
    • Graphviz DOT file

• WebDAV service (dot-maven)

  • Read-only access to stored artifacts

  • Auto-generated settings.xml files corresponding to each repository, group, and deploy-point on the system. For deploy-points and groups containing deploy-points, the generated settings.xml includes repository override properties for use with the maven-deploy-plugin.

    For example, on a Mac you can do this:

    1. Mount http://localhost:8080/aprox/mavdav to /Volumes/mavdav
    2. mvn -s /Volumes/mavdav/settings/groups/settings-public.xml clean install
    3. Artifacts stored in $HOME/.m2/repo-group-public
    4. If public group contains a deploy-point, override properties for maven-deploy-plugin are included